Rodney Anoaʻi

Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with The World Wrestling Federation where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. The termyokozuna refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. Although the "Yokozuna" character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoaʻi had never competed as an actual sumotori. Though Yokozuna wrestled as a representative of Japan, he was of Samoan origin and was accordingly billed as hailing from Polynesia (although he was managed by Mr. Fuji, who would follow Anoaʻi to the ring with a wooden bucket of salt, and waving a Japanese flag). In the WWF, Anoaʻi was a two-time WWF Champion and two-time Tag Team Champion (with Owen Hart), as well as the winner of the 1993 Royal Rumble. Anoa'i was the first wrestler of Samoan descent to hold the WWF Championship as well as the first Royal Rumble winner who as a result of a direct stipulation received a world title shot at WrestleMania. He defeated WWE Hall of Famers Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan, in consecutive pay-per-view victories at WrestleMania IX and the1993 King of the Ring, to win his two WWF Championships. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.

Filmography (74 Appearances)

Biography: WWE Legends

Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased

WWE: True Giants

The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History

WWE Hall Of Fame 2012

Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection

WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s

Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker

WWE Hall of Fame

Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story

Heroes of Wrestling

WWF Summer Flashback!

WWF World Tour '96

WWE Terminators '96

Best Of Raw • Volume One

WWE Survivor Series 1996

WWE SummerSlam 1996

WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog

WWE WrestleMania XII

WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage

WWE Royal Rumble 1996

WWE Survivor Series 1995

WWE In Your House 4: Great White North

WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header

WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks

WWE King of the Ring 1995

WWE In Your House

WWE WrestleMania XI

WWF Off the Top Rope

WWE SlamFest

WWE WrestleFest '95

WWE Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt

WWE Survivor Series 1994

WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994

German Fan Favorites

Razor Ramon

Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!

WWE Sunday Night Slam

Bret "Hit Man" Hart

The Undertaker

WWE WrestleFest '94

WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams

WWE King of the Ring 1994

Inside the WWF

WWE WrestleMania X

WWE March to WrestleMania X

The History Of WrestleMania

WWE Royal Rumble 1994

WWE Survivor Series 1993

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993

Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches

WWE SummerSlam 1993

WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993

WWE Global Warfare

All Aboard the Lex Express

WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge

WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers

WWE Bashed in the USA

WWE King of the Ring 1993

WWF European Rampage 1993

WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em

WWE UK Rampage '93

WWE WrestleMania IX

WWE March to WrestleMania IX

WWE Royal Rumble 1993

Raw

WWE Survivor Series 1992

L'homme au masque d'or

AWA SuperClash IV

WWF Wrestling Challenge

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